Oil Cooler Question
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Drifting
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From: Birmingham AL
Oil Cooler Question
In an oil cooler system with the oil filter adapter that is plumbed to the radiator: Does oil flow to the radiator or does coolant flow to the filter adapter? Thanks for any replies. :cool:
Le Mans Master
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Re: Oil Cooler Question (Siveck)
I just had mine torn down...coolant to the oil filter assy. if you disconnect the lines at the oil filter you loose all the coolant in the block I must have drained 3-4 gallons. :auto:
Race Director
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From: tucson AZ
St. Jude Donor '04 & '05
Re: Oil Cooler Question (Siveck)
I would guess you are talking about the stock system.....I have an '84....and installed an after market system....B&M....Oil cooler assy....works well for me...
Guess that really dosen't help you...
Right????
I like the ford oil filter....offers alot more filtration....
Anyway...
Good Luck...
tony
:cheers:
Guess that really dosen't help you...
Right????
I like the ford oil filter....offers alot more filtration....
Anyway...
Good Luck...
tony
:cheers:
Melting Slicks
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From: prescott AZ
Re: Oil Cooler Question (Southern Comfort)
Thanks Southern Comfort for teaching me something new. I always thought that the oil went trough the radiator. What makes the water coolant circulate? (where does it get the force to move through the oil adapter?)
Isn't this the best and easiest way to drain the coolant? Yet I never heard it mentioned here?
Isn't this the best and easiest way to drain the coolant? Yet I never heard it mentioned here?
Team Owner
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Re: Oil Cooler Question (skeet)
The supply Tees off the heater line coming from the water pump, and it returns into the engine block. Or maybe I have it backwards, but one of those sides is the high pressure side.
Easiest way to drain coolant is the petcok on the radiator, but it doesn't get it all, so undoing it at the oil cooler would get more of it out. I think most people don't have the oil cooler. It doesn't do much (actually works as an oil heater when car is warming up), which is good, and cools the oil a bit afterwards. There just isn't enough temperature difference or surface area in the cooler to do much heat transfer. It came on the Z51 cars initially, but I think they got rid of it at some point.
Easiest way to drain coolant is the petcok on the radiator, but it doesn't get it all, so undoing it at the oil cooler would get more of it out. I think most people don't have the oil cooler. It doesn't do much (actually works as an oil heater when car is warming up), which is good, and cools the oil a bit afterwards. There just isn't enough temperature difference or surface area in the cooler to do much heat transfer. It came on the Z51 cars initially, but I think they got rid of it at some point.
